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Neo-liberal policies of 1980's and 1990's have resulted in serious financial crises and balance of payments problems in all over the world. These policies have remained insufficient and defective in the face of modern capitalist system. Under these circumstances, the notion of nation-state has begun to be eroded and this fact leads some social scientists to neo-logical efforts of neo-liberalism. As a result, the functions of the state in modern capitalist world and new liberal development policies have been reconsidered. In this study, we shall question the implications of 'industrial district models' that can be regarded as a new industrial development model of new liberal paradigm.
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The paper is dedicated to analysis of the globalization concept that is considered through the prism of ideas of Karl Polanyi, the well-known economic sociologist and anthropologist. In his work Great Transformation Polanyi has explained the process of the world-wide market expansion of the 19th-early 20th centuries, that is the actual process of globalization of the 19th – early 20th century, as well as the causes of its failure. This process, as is shown by Polanyi, was directed by the project of economic liberalism and gave rise to a whole complex of negative social consequences. The conception of the world-wide market expansion and criticism of Polanyi’s economic liberalism favours a better comprehension of the essence, social consequences and prospects of a new wave of globalization of late 20th – early 21st centuries and neoliberal project assumed as its basis. A conclusion has been formulated according to which, as a results of the action of the mechanism of “double motion” revealed by Polanyi, the neoliberal globalization of the 19th-early 20th century failed utterly. There is the substantiation that Polanyi connected the final overcoming of contradictions of the world-wide market expansion and renewal of the unity of “economy” and “society” with transition to socialism.
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The paper examines the significance of ‘civil society’ promotion as a component of the new modes of governance proposed within the EU and its member states. The concept of civil society has had different meanings and roles in the evolution of the old and post-communist new EU members. ‘Civil society’ is analyzed as a form of political coordination under capitalism; as a reform ideology in the process of opposition under communism; as a policy legitimizing democratisation; and as an ideological component of neo-liberalism in the enlargement of the European Union. The paper proposes a model distinguishing the different roles played by ‘civil society’ discourse in the transformation of state socialism. In the post-state socialist societies a process of democracy promotion has included the sponsorship of civil society. Analyzed empirically, significant differences are shown between the nature of civil society organizations in the old EU member states, new members and post socialist non members. These data indicate the important changes which have taken place in the new member states. However, in the context of the post-socialist states, in which traditional forms of government have been weakened, there are significant structural weaknesses in civil society organizations. It is shown that there is a serious deficiency with respect to the efficacy of civil society associations as agents in the democratizing process, as well as for the articulation and defence of community interests. It is argued that furthering ‘civil society’ forms of participation and management are a part of a neo-liberal economic and political agenda. It is concluded that strengthening democratic state forms of administration and coordination should be major policy concerns.
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The article is devoted to the research of theory and practice of neo-liberalism that was the answer to the delay of rates of economic growth in the capitalist world in the beginning of the 1970’s. The returning of the USA and other Western states to laissez faire has been caused by their failure to solve acute social and economic problems in their countries by means of Keynesian economies. Transition to neo-liberalism has caused the consolidation of neo-liberal market fundamentalism in the Western countries and the imposing of principles of laissez faire to the countries of “the third world” and with “transitive economy” which have been compelled to modify their economies according to the imperative requirements of “Washington consensus” and “post-Washington consensus”. World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization have been involved in introduction of these requirements which have led to the unprecedented expansion of gap between the rich and poor countries, and also between rich and poor both in the countries of the global South, and in the countries of the global North. The analysis of economic development in the modern world shows that these instructions, imposed to all world, especially to former colonial and socialist countries, not only have not led to the improvement of economic situation in the world, but also promoted the drawing of the majority of countries into the first global financial and economic crisis that testifies for a necessity to change the existing paradigm of social and economic development.
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